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This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial

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This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial

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SKU: 9781925240689 Category: Product ID: 213743

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Title: This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial
Author: GARNER HELEN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 04/01/2016
Imprint: TEXT PUBLISHERS
Price: $24.00
Publishing status: Active

Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon after I had watched a magistrate commit Robert Farquharson to stand trial before a jury on three charges of murder, I headed out that way on a Sunday morning, across the great volcanic plain .

On the evening of 4 September 2005, Father’s Day, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three sons home to their mother, Cindy, when his car left the road and plunged into a dam. The boys, aged ten, seven and two, drowned. Was this an act of revenge or a tragic accident? The court case became Helen Garner’s obsession. She followed it on its protracted course until the final verdict.

In this utterly compelling book, Helen Garner tells the story of a man and his broken life. She presents the theatre of the courtroom with its actors and audience – all gathered to witness to the truth – players in the extraordinary and unpredictable drama of the quest for justice.
This House of Grief is a heartbreaking and unputdownable book by one of Australia’s most admired writers

ISBN: 9781925240689
Weight: 256g
Dimension: 198mm X 128mm
Pages: 310
Edition: 01

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Weight 256 g
Dimensions 198 × 128 mm